19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend smoky mirror With several layers of lace

With several layers of lace around her collar and an organza apron that can be removed to show her white cotton skirt with eyelet lace trim underneath

Loaded with personality and very charming

I could spend hours playing around with them forming different words and phrases from what is at hand

Perfectly executed in upper case italics

I was sold on these blocks before I even opened the box: first for the great lithographed graphics on the lid

19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend smoky mirror With several layers of lacePurchased this week from a wonderful, old school dealer couple with a historic house of a shop in MA about an hour outside of Boston, this is just my sort of slate much loved and lovingly mended at one corner long ago with a scrap of metal surely cut from some other once functional thing laying around. With two lovely rows of iron nails there, wooden nails plugs still at a couple of the corners, and a beautiful patina to the rest of it. And traces of